«In Palermo, we all have a constellation of mourning in which the stars are the people killed by Cosa Nostra». Beginning with accounts of the Eighties and the bombings of ‘92, around which he has constructed an absorbing biographical structure, Davide Enia paints «an intimate and collective self-portrait» of a community forced to live with the constant manifestation of evil.

How is our species seen through the eyes of the other inhabitants of the Earth? Is a future more sustainable than our present possible? With a comical and disenchanted outlook, a flock of mechanical crows – animated by Marta Cuscunà – examines the possibility of a new form of harmony between nature and progress.

Marco Paolini composes narratives, Matthew Lenton creates theatre of images and visions. Darwin, Nevada is their original creation to tell the story of a man who incubates the egg of a new idea, but is reluctant to lay it and keeps it inside, waiting for the right time. Forget books, biographies, history, this is theater.

In the award-winning production by D’Agostin, Marta Ciappina invites us, through dance, words, music and images, to reflect on the sense of memory and the relationship with the past through histories both great and small.

A moving and visionary masterpiece by Pedro Lemebel, Ho paura torero, is on stage in the theatrical version directed by Claudio Longhi. Lino Guanciale is the Fairy on the Corner, a sensitive and passionate transvestite, in a play that walks the line between dream and history, between eros and politics.

A beautiful and kind-hearted young woman, a man representing evil. Chiara Guidi – whose theatre is aimed at children and speaks to adults – follows the path of discovering and accepting that which is monstrous taken by Belinda, the heroine of the famous fairy tale, who is capable of bringing goodness out from the dark with the love she shows for the Beast.

Creating a prodigious play of theatrical layers, the new work by Mariano Pensotti tells the artistic enterprise of a theatrical director. A specular and dizzying mise en abyme, spectacular in its staging, which invites the audience to gradually uncover the facets of truth through theatre.

Paris 2025. A prestigious fashion house receives a special order; prepare a wedding dress for an English princess. From France to India, Caroline Guiela Nguyen connects the process of creation for a precious dress to the lives of tailors, lace-makers and embroiderers, exploring the secret processes and the dynamics that lie beneath the surface in the world of high fashion. 

Rifici chooses the comic mechanism of Feydeau’s vaudeville in the adaptation that he has prepared together with Tindaro Granata, a directorial examination of comedy. An exhilarating story of presumed infidelity and the thousands of misunderstandings set in motion by a suspicious wife, one of the high points of the most successful examples of classic playwriting.

An abandoned wife, an internal mourning to be processed and experienced in full, an oppressed body to be destroyed and then rebuilt, more resistant. Gaia Saitta stages the novel by Elena Ferrante, the story of a woman capable of being reborn, finally free, scandalous and strong.

In 1924, Hitler published Mein Kampf (My struggle). In 2016, Germany allowed the book to be republished. Stefano Massini has studied all of Hitler’s speeches and the first draft of the book, creating a show that sheds light on the paranoia of the dictator and on national-socialist folly.

Inspired by the work of the Austrian artist Martin Kunze, Marcus Lindeen and Marianne Ségol interweave documentary material and fiction to reflect on our collective history, on the obsession to remember and be remembered. 

A cinematographic and theatrical director – his Pieces of a Woman won Vanessa Kirby the Volpi Cup in Venice and an Oscar nomination for Best Actress – the Hungarian Kornél Mundruczó comes to the Piccolo for the first time with a play that examines the theme of gender and ethnic identity in Eastern Europe.

«Re Chicchinella – explains Emma Dante, introducing her new exploration of the poetry of Giambattista Basile – tells the story of a king that is ill, alone and hopeless, surrounded by a loveless and cold family that has just one interest: receiving one golden egg a day.»

What is the relationship between the disappearance of a political dissident during the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1978 and that of a Jewish pianist in France in 1941? A blend of autobiography and fiction, historical research and police investigation, Davide Carnevali stage a reflection on the barbarian aspects of the totalitarianism that characterised the entire twentieth century.